I love the matrox mystique, it's a excellent card. the build quality is fine so is the vga output. Lot's of drivers for different OS (Win3x/9x/OS2/NT..)
It's much much faster than my RageIIc onboard on my Scovery-212 system and it has some acceleration in amithlon (picasso96 screenmodes, nice!)
Beside the MSI games there are some Direct3D titles that support the mystique directly. If you know more, please let me know!
- DirectX2 ResidentEvil1
- DirectX3 Dungeon Keeper D3D
- DirectX3 POD
- DirectX5 WingCommander5 D3D
- DirectX6 ResidentEvil2
What I am not fully aware of is the real difference on "software-rendering" vs. "direct-draw" vs. "direct3d" on such a card.
Visually it's all the same because there are no exclusive features visible in direct3d.
A good example is POD...there is:
- PODMMX (=mmx and windows)
- WINPOD (=windows direct-draw?)
- POD3D3 (Pod D3D3)
- POD3D5 (Pod D3D5)
One recommendation:
- If you choose 8Bit mode in Dune 2000 you get really smooth scrolling (agp cards like rageIIc, RagePro can do that in 16Bit) No other strategy-game has that smooth scrolling (C&C series, ...)
Doc
Retro-Gamer 😀 ...on different machines